Productivity and health: Best practices for better measures of productivity

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 865-871

  Schwartz, Steven M ^a   Riedel, John ^b  

^a HealthMedia Inc   (United States)

^b Riedel and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EVALUATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LITERATURE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; WELLBEING;

EID: 77957796707     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181ed8686     Document Type: Article

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